UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on
PUBLIC SECTOR
Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt
Legacy government systems would have posed a significant barrier to the UK's abandoned national digital ID scheme, according to the country's spending watchdog.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a review of the digital identity landscape and the lessons that should inform any future attempt to introduce a government-wide system.
Drawing on its previous work on digital transformation, data, and identity, as well as evidence from international audit bodies, the NAO emphasized that digital identity is not a single product or technology. Instead, it encompasses services, credentials, standards, providers, and governance arrangements across the public and private sectors.
Earlier this year, newly appointed Prime Minister Andy Burnham cancelled the digital ID scheme announced less than a year earlierby his predecessor, Keir Starmer. The government had already reversed its plan to make digital ID...
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